Marc Davis has always been my favorite of Disney's famous Nine Old Men of Animation; It began when I started to investigated who this balding artist was that always appeared with Walt in those behind the scenes at Disneyland shorts.
I loved his concept artwork for The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction and I became obsessed with pirates myself when I started to do research for my own work. My pirates owe a lot to the late Marc Davis; the designs came from my head, but the personalities that came from these designs gives a little wink to what he had in his concepts.
Below is an old school project from concept to final; Funny thing is that my wife told me to change the far right pirate's eyes so they were looking down because he would not be looking into her eyes.
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| Sketch |
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| Rough Color |
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| Final |
The following are sketches I did while playing around with different ideas. Some of these I do quite enjoy, so expect to see final of some of these in the future.
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| Pirate Sketches |
Title: "Red Beard", The following design was for a project I did in college. Here you will see it from sketch, to color test, and then to vector. I later revisited this design and fleshed it out adding a wench for company.
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| Original Sketch |
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| Color Test |
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| Final Vector |
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| Redesign |
This final piece was a personal project I did for fun. I had a blast studying the costumes and sketching out Captain Barbossa, Jack Sparrow and Will Turner. I am still really pleased on how this one turned out, I still need to add Elizabeth.
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| The Three Amigos |
